Maybe making Heidi Klum the butt of your joke isn’t the best “America’s Got Talent” strategy.
On Tuesday night’s episode, comedian Usama Siddiquee took the stage to show off some of his comedy stylings.
For the first part of his set, Siddiquee joked about the similarity of his name to Osama bin Laden’s and the problems that causes for him at airports.
He then moved on to making jokes about misogynistic lyrics in DJ club music, using Klum for his punchline.
“Heidi, if I called you a tramp, you’d be like, ‘How dare you!’ Right?” Siddiquee said. ‘But if I was like, ”Tramp. Tramp. Tramp. Tramp,’ you’d be like, ‘Well, I do get loose on occasion.'”
Klum sat stone-faced through the bit, pursing her lips and clearly not enjoying the material.
When the set was over, Siddiquee got some praise from Howie Mandel, who then turned things over to Klum.
“Being called a tramp was my least comfortable part of the whole thing,” she said, smiling slightly. “But that’s just me. Let’s see what America thinks.”
The comedian later defended his joke. “It wasn’t calling her a tramp at all. It was talking about how lyrics are not looked at when there’s a beat behind it,” Siddiquee told ET. “So the joke I’m not apologizing for, I love the joke. I love what I did, I had a great time.”
He added: “All love to Heidi, all love to all the judges.”
Klum also spoke to ET about the joke, admitting Siddiquee is “a very good comedian.”
However, she added, “I just didn’t love his material so much today. It was just not for me. It’s hard to be a comedian now, to know what can you joke about still, but I don’t know, to me, it was not so funny.”
